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War met the two men once. One was a pilot of the invisible F-117A, the other the missile officer that shot him down.Their first meeting was on the radar.Dale Zelko and Zoltan Dani decided to meet each other 12 years later. A human story of a unique encounter.

“The Second meeting” is a story about the meeting of former American pilot Dale Zelko and former Yugoslav missile officer Zoltan Dani, who were enemies during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. This unique documentary went around the world and international and worldwide press /USA, UK, , Serbia, France, Italy, Denmark, Brazil, Indonesia, Sudan, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia…/ describes the documentary as a remarkable and incredible story, which carries the message of peace, tolerance and friendship.

Also, British Daily Mail in lengthy reports writes that time heals all wounds.

American The Huffington Post writes that the documentary “tells us the emotive story of reconciliation between two former enemies.

”French Le Figaro writes how during their first meeting Dani and Zelko wanted to kill each other, but their second meeting was full on emotions, during which they hug a lot. Le figaro quoted Zelko saying that “the war was not between him and me, it was not a personal thing, and even less between me and the Serbian people.”

BBC World News reporters that “a remarkable friendship has developed between a US stealth fighter pilot and the man who shot him down during the NATO air strike.” BBC reports that two men who were once in the war enemies and now are friends, what to send massage of “peace and tolerance.”

BBCreporter says that hostilities are history and that Zelko came to express his friendship to the man who shot him down.

French TV5Monde reports that Zelko expresses his apologize for “suffering, pain, loss and anxiety” that Serbian people felt during the bombing and adds that “a war is not carried out by ordinary people, ordinary, but by governments.” Zelko’s message is “never do that again.”

French Courrier International writes that Zelko “landed in Serbia again, this time to attend the premiere of the documentary” which shows emotions of two families and that “the human outweighs the absurdity of the war.”

The headline of Italian Giornalettismo says that “Friendship can save the world.”

Zelko told Serbian national broadcaster RTS that when he was at Dani’s home he was feeling like at home and that Dani and his family “are people who give a lot, and forgive a lot.”

The documentary director Mirkovic in the interview for Serbian wire service Tanjug told that the documentary is a result of “one adventure, the journey that lasted for five years, and which included three families, Dani, Zelko and mine.”